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Yalta Highlights - Nikita Botanic Garden

  • DURATION: 5 hours
  • WALKING TIME: 4 hours
  • WALKING DISTANCE: 5 km
  • TRANSPORTATION: passenger car / Mercedes Vito / Mercedes Sprinter
  • GUIDING SERVICES: guiding in English/German/French/Spanish — according to your request

Tour details:

Escape to the beauty and greenery of Nikita Botanic Garden on this open-air five-hour tour. The tour highlights Nikita Botanic Garden, Alexander Nevsky Cathedral and ends with a short walking excursion along along seafront of Yalta. Welcome to the most exotic park of the South Crimea to admire the plants and learn some interesting details about their life. Great photo experience, the tour to Batanic Garden is always relaxing and picturesque.

You tour will start in the center of Yalta. Heading eastwards you will be in Nikita in only about 30 minutes of drive.  Nikita Botanic Garden has a collection of 28 000 species, varieties and hybrids of plants. The pride of the Nikita Botanical Garden is its park with about 2000 species of trees and shrubs. The park has more than 600 flowers types and some 200 species of hothouse plants. In different time of the year you can visit different flower exhibitions. There are tulips, orchids, roses, and chrysanthemum plant shows taking place in the garden from April to November. Blossoming period may vary from a few days to several weeks depending on the weather.

Fan-shaped Chinese palms, Bamboo grove, Italian pines, Lebanon cedars, California oak tree, myrtles, feijoa, orchid trees, palmetto, Aleppo pine, Numidian fir tree, Arizona cypress, red cedar, olives, Lebanese cedar, magnolia are only a few of all the exhibits you can see in the park.
The garden is divided into several smaller parks: Lower, Upper, Seaside Park and the park of Cape Martyan. During the excursion you will visit fenced Lover and Upper parks. The other parks you can visit optionally.

On this tour your will visit Alexander Nevsky Cathedral. Traditional Russian style building of the cathedral was erected in the beginning of XX century. Alexander Nevsky was a saint patron of Russian tsars. The cathedral is still one of the most beautiful attractions of Yalta.

The tour will end with a short walking excursion along the seafront of Yalta. Your guide will tell you about Yalta, its history, and the most significant events that took place here. On your wish you can end your tour on the seafront of Yalta for a meal in a pavement café.

The tour to Nikita garden is enjoyed by tourists of any age. Dressing advice is comfortable shoes in any time of the year. You’ll spend most of the time in the open air.

Please, contact us for detailed information and the price.

Price Includes:  transportation, guiding in the selected language, entrance tickets to all visited landmarks.
Please Note: The price of the tour quoted above depends on the number of visitors, changes in museum schedule, or your personal wishes; each request requires independent calculation. The order of the visted attractions may vary.